Consecration

Consecration - To set apart as holy; make or declare sacred for religious use. 2. to devote entirely too-dedicate. -Webster's Dictionary

Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. IIChronicles 29:31

Read Exodus 29:38-41

Exodus 29:39 - The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb shalt offer at even.

The morning and evening burnt offering symbolized the daily consecration of the chosen people to the Lord.

Do you see where I am going with this? Are you among the chosen of God? Are you in that number in the congregation? If so, it is a daily thing. Not just a Sunday thing. He should be the first thing you think about in the morning, and the last thing you should think about at night.

One writer has said: "It is impossible for us, of ourselves, to escape from the pit of sin in which we are sunken. Our hearts are evil, and we cannot change them. "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one." The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Job 14:4; Romans 8:7. Education, culture, the exercise of the will, human effort, all have their proper sphere, but here they are powerless. They may produce an outward correctness of behavior, but they cannot change the heart; they cannot purify the springs of life. There must be a power working from within, a new life from above, before men can be changed from sin to holiness. That power is Christ. His grace alone can quicken the lifeless faculties of the soul, and attract it to God, to holiness.